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SW Region Show

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SW REGION SHOW

If you sold a painting during the GOAT or SW Region show, please contact me and let me know which painting sold.

Oct 31st – Thursday is Check out 

10am to noon

 Boise Cascade Lobby

Be sure to come and pick up your art.

It has been two awesome shows at a beautiful venue and has received positive feedback.

Thank you to all who entered and especially thank you to all who helped make this event possible by volunteering to do the work.

Cherry Woodbury

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Karyn deKramer

SW Email Coordinator

[email protected]

SW Monthly Member Exhibits/ Workshops

By Region - Southwest, SW Monthly Member Announcements
SW Members
SW Monthly Member Exhibits/Workshops for November
 
 
Important:  Email your announcement to Karyn at  [email protected]
 
 
Greetings,
 
It is time again to submit your upcoming watercolor exhibit, or workshop announcement into the November email listing.  A monthly list of watercolor exhibits members are participating in and/or watercolor workshop opportunities taught by members.

To participate and have your announcement posted, please send a prepared announcement to Karyn by the deadline: Oct 28. There are a few requirements: Please keep it short (short paragraph), text only (no attachments), text that can be cut and pasted. One link is OK. Watercolor media related only.  -Thank you.


Deadline Oct 28 
Very Important! Please email your announcement to Karyn at  [email protected]
 
Question or Comments contact Karyn: [email protected]
 
 
Karyn deKramer
SW Email Coordinator

SW Analysis and Discussion – Reminder

By Region - Southwest, SW In Person Analysis and Discussion

Reminder – SW Analysis and Discussion

 

Eagle Hills Church…  651 N Eagle Rd, Eagle, ID 83616

Monday, Oct  7,  1 – 3 p.m.

 

Directions:

In Eagle from State St. go north on Eagle Rd. to the top of the hill.

 

We meet downstairs in the Music Room 

Parking is available in the lower lot

 

Having trouble with a painting?…bring it.

Have a successful painting?…We’d like to see it and cheer!

No painting to bring…Come anyway…..

…it’s all FUN, FRIENDLY and HELPFUL !

 

“Get that old stuff out from under your bed or off your easel and bring it in for discussion, 

we’re all friends and there’s no crying in watercolors!”

-Scott

*  I won’t be able to make it, but will be contacting Roy and Don to make sure they can help out. -Scott

 

Questions? email Scott    [email protected]

SW Analysis and Discussion

By Region - Southwest, SW In Person Analysis and Discussion

SW Analysis and Discussion

 

Eagle Hills Church…  651 N Eagle Rd, Eagle, ID 83616

Monday, Oct  7,  1 – 3 p.m.

 

Directions:

In Eagle from State St. go north on Eagle Rd. to the top of the hill.

 

We meet downstairs in the Music Room 

Parking is available in the lower lot

 

Having trouble with a painting?…bring it.

Have a successful painting?…We’d like to see it and cheer!

No painting to bring…Come anyway…..

…it’s all FUN, FRIENDLY and HELPFUL !

 

“Get that old stuff out from under your bed or off your easel and bring it in for discussion, 

we’re all friends and there’s no crying in watercolors!”

-Scott

*  I won’t be able to make it, but will be contacting Roy and Don to make sure they can help out. -Scott

 

Questions? email Scott    [email protected]

Southwest Region Only – St. Al’s Artist of the Month Artist Program for 2025 – 2026

By Region - Southwest

St. Al’s is preparing for their invitation only Artist of the Month Art Program for 2025 – 2026. If you would like to participate, please note the RSVP date is September 27 with the submission form due to the St. Al’s team by October 4.

Download the three documents provided by them and follow the directions as stated to apply.

 

St. Al’s Artist Program Document 1

St. Al’s Artist Program Document 2

St. Al’s Artist Program Document 3

 

 

 

SW Members Exhibits and Workshops/Classes for October

By Region - Southwest, SW Monthly Member Announcements

SW Members Exhibits and Workshops/Classes for October

Exhibits:
 
Gary McCall  -St Luke’s invited me to show in Boise for October. A group show at Initial Point too. Will be doing plein aire with many others on the fourth for Surels first Friday. Then Finer Frames week long plein aire.   
 
 
Shelly Johnson has been invited to participate in the 2024 National Watercolor Exhibition at Mark Arts in Wichita, Kansas. Her painting, “The Barrel Racer”, will be on display from October 4 to December 21 at Mark Arts, 1307 N. Rock Road, Wichita, Kansas. Opening Reception is October 4 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Shelly Johnson’s painting “Remi” was selected for the 2024 Richeson75 Figure/Portrait competition and exhibition finalist list. This is an online exhibition that opens September 27 on richeson.com.
 
 
 
Mary Gardiner- In October Mary is exhibiting in Hidden Worlds at the Full Moon gallery, Twin Falls. Mary also has a painting in the TVAA exhibit Masks at the Gem Center for the Arts and in TVAA Opus. First Friday, October 4, a participating artist in the Surel’s Place art stroll. Initial Point a Touch of Landscape with other artists and a reception – we’d love to see you. Also, come October, Mary will have a new studio at the Gem Center for the Arts. Visitors welcome!
 
 
Lauren Johnson will be holding her studio open for the BOSCO OPEN STUDIOS TOUR again this year.  She will be open on the second weekend of the tour, October 12th and 13th from 10-5 both days.  Her home studio is located at 109 S Stephenson St in Eagle, and you can contact her by email at [email protected] or call 208-215-1588 if you need more information.  She’d love to have you drop by and bring any guests you would like.
 
 
Frankie Sims  -I’m honored to have had a painting judged into this year’s TVAA Opus show, alongside the work of many local artists I admire. Bright, colorful tropical fish, as I envision them, play on my canvas,  inquisitively encountering one another in a blue ocean kelp bed. I hope you can stop by the Riverside Hotel in Boise between October 4 and November 3, to take a look at my watercolor painting, and enjoy the 66 other creative, interesting and diverse works of art in Opus 2024. 
 
 
Joyce Green -A very special THANK YOU to all the wonderful friends and artists who attended the awards presentation at Meridian City Hall on Saturday, September 21st!  I was so honored to receive the Tammy de Weerd award for Excellence in the Arts, and even more honored to be so well represented by my IWS group!  Joyce Green
Tres Amigos”,  a watercolor by Joyce Green,  is currently on view through October 26th at the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibit at Evergreen Center for the Arts in Evergreen, Colorado.  Check it out if you are in that neighborhood!
 
Joyce Green -You are invited to visit Joyce Green’s garage studio during the 2nd weekend of October, the 12th and 13th, from 10 to 6 for the BOSCO (Boise Open Studios) event.  Come see what I do and how I do it in watercolor, including my “wild hairs”! (My exploratory works)  The address is 1088 West Chateau Avenue in Meridian.  The easiest access is east off Linder on Chateau despite what GPS says.  I am one of the farthest out studios, even though I am in  old Meridian, so I will welcome all the visitors I can and you can ask all the questions you want!
 
 
Workshops/ Classes:
 
Marina Zavalova, I will be teaching watercolor classes at College of Eastern Idaho in Idaho Falls starting October 16 through November 20, beginning/advanced. I am sure everyone in IWS is very skillful painters, but if people know someone who is afraid to start or want to improve I am here.

 
 
 
Karyn deKramer
SW Email Coordinator